Michael Dreeban is a 30-year veteran of the Department of Justice, long serving as the Deputy Solicitor General of the United States, focusing on criminal law cases. Michael is one of only seven people in history to try more than 100 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Orin Kerr has praised him as the “biggest brain in criminal law in the country,” and POLITICO said that he is “widely recognized by both Democrats and Republicans as one of the government’s elite attorneys and strategists for ferreting out illegal behavior.” He has been in appellate practice for so long that he argued his first case before the Supreme Court in 1989, United States v. Halper, against now-Chief Justice John Roberts. Michael has taught as a visiting faculty member at Duke Law and as an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law, for which he may have more time after his retirement from a long career in the Department of Justice in 2019.